Corset-busk.



PATENTED NOV. 21, 1905.

L. B. BAILLET. GORSET BUSK.

APPLICATION FILED APR.17, 190s.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CORSET-BUSK.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Nov. 21, 1905.

Application filed April 17, 1903. Serial No. 153,068.

To all whom, it Jnay concern:

Be it known that I, LOUISE BLANoHn BAIL LET, (born FORTIES ALIBERT,) a citizen of the French Republic, and a resident of Paris, France, have invented certain new and useful Corset Busks and Springs, of which the following is a specification.

The object of the present application for patent is. the invention of slidable busks for corsets, not only supple and flexible after the ,manner of ordinary busks and bones made of strips of metal or whalebone, but the length whereof may also be altered-that is to say,

which can be lengthened and shortened, as required by the movements of the body, in such a way that the corset while remaining a support will never become an inconvenience to the wearer.

Another object relating to this invention for .ned with a similar reason consists in making the busks and bones slidable by dividing each strip or blade in two. A part of this blade is placed at the top by fixing it firmly by its upper portion with the assistance of holes-furnished with eyelets to prevent the sewing-thread being cut. The other part of the blade is fixed by its lower half and in the same manner. These two parts of the blade are placed in such a manner that they rejoin and bear lightly one upon the other, so that when the wearer makes a movement the two blades slide one upon the other.

Some examples of the application of these principles are hereinafter described and are illustrated in the annexed drawings,in which- Figures 1 and 2, 5 and 6, and 7 and 8 are respectively front views of various forms of the invention in different positions, and Figs. 3, 4, and 9 are front views of various modifications.

In the drawings, Figs. 1 and 2 show the two busks of a corset hooking one upon the other in the usual manner. Each of these busks is itself composed of three parts. The top part is fixed at its portion 2 in the usual manner to the material of the corset. It is constituted by a spring or whalebone blade, and its lower part (1 can slide in a sheath 7', fixed to the material and the lower part of which is constituted by asimple blade g, which can slide in a sheath 1', fixed to the material and forming the lower part of the bush. It is easily understood that under these conditions the length of the bush is not invariable and that whether the free portions of the aforesaid parts are more or less inserted in the sheaths the whole constituting the bush is short or long.

In Fig. 1 the bush is shown in full length, while in Fig. 2 the free parts (1 of the parts are deeply inserted inside the sheaths r. 6 indicates the material of the corset, crumpled up by reason of this position of the blades or strips. The material may be replaced by india-rubber. or any other metal which may he invented to replace flat or round steel busks.

Fig. 3 shows a spring constituted by an upper blade 9, which can slide in the lower part It. The blade g is fixed in its upper part to the material of the corset. Any desired length may be given to these springs.

Fig. 4 shows a spring made in three parts, the upper part j whereof is fixed, by means of eyelet-holes 00, to the material of the corset, while the lower part is fixed by its lower end to that material in a similar manner. The other ends of these parts can slide freely in a sheath 2', fitted to the material.

Figs. 5 and 6 show the spring made of blades or strips of steel, horn, whalebone, or any other appropriate material. The upper blades (4 are fixed, by means of eyelet-holes :11, similar to those before mentioned, at their top ends to the material of the corset. The lower blades 6 are fixed in the same manner at their bottom ends and move up the top part, which has remained free to slide, so that the middle portion in the height of the corset can follow all the movements of the body without being the slightest inconvenience to the wearer. Fig. 5 shows the spring at full length, while Fig. 6 shows it shortened.

A second means of carryingout the abovedescribed principles is shown in Figs. 7 and 8. The busk shown in these figures comprises an upper and a lower blade 0 and cl, fixed, respectively, by their outer ends, the other ends whereof are united in a tube Z, fixed at the middle'of the bush and placed so that the two blades come together and bear slightly one upon the other, so that they may slide one upon the other to shorten the blade according to the movements of the body.

Fig. 9 shows a third means of making the hereinbefore-described busk. In this species a blade on, having both its ends free, penetrates at its upper and lower ends in sheaths y and .2. This blade is provided at its middle with two buttons w w for attaching purposes.

The aforesaid blades are of steel to the material and having freeends slidable oppositely in the sheath and freely movable therein when in use.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in presence of two witnesses.

LOUISE BLANCHE BAILLET.

Witnesses:

ADoLPHE STURM, AUGUSTUS E. INGRAM. 

